Tech Dad
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Father, techno geek, sports fanatic, believer of science, and a big fan of democracy. Don't be afraid to change your mind if new data sends you in a new direction in finding the truth.
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DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor.
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor.
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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My 4th and 6th graders understand this. I asked my 6th grader can you save 600%, she asked if they are paying her to buy the product. My 4th grader said you couldn't do more than 100% but was about to tell me how much the 6th grader would get paid at 600%.
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
My 4th and 6th graders understand this. I asked my 6th grader can you save 600%, she asked if they are paying her to buy the product. My 4th grader said you couldn't do more than 100% but was about to tell me how much the 6th grader would get paid at 600%.
And every friend to the GOP and Trump himself are victims... So they will make sure that they aren't exposed.
Blanche on Epstein files: "Today is the 30 days. I expect we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today, including photographs...now, the most important thing is we protect victims. We are looking at every single piece of paper making sure that every victim is completely protected"
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
And every friend to the GOP and Trump himself are victims... So they will make sure that they aren't exposed.
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Pope Leo sounds as if he is directly criticizing Trump, because Trump exemplifies evils that the pontiff decries—neglect of the poor, crass materialism, embrace of violence, and bigotry. While Trump oppresses; the pontiff stands with the oppressed
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Undaunted in Faith
Three religious leaders provide inspiration: Pope Leo XIV; Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde; and Pastor Jamal Bryant
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Pope Leo sounds as if he is directly criticizing Trump, because Trump exemplifies evils that the pontiff decries—neglect of the poor, crass materialism, embrace of violence, and bigotry. While Trump oppresses; the pontiff stands with the oppressed
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
How does demand need to improve? We are in a housing crisis with not enough supply. It just doesn't match up with reality.
Estimates of Lennar's gross profit margins over the next year sank to a new decade+ low -- at some point demand needs to improve or the industry will cut production and jobs more:
December 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
How does demand need to improve? We are in a housing crisis with not enough supply. It just doesn't match up with reality.
And people like @durbin.senate.gov and @schumer.senate.gov allow this to happen.
Just a reminder: White supremacy is the reigning ideology of the American executive branch.
Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA.
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
December 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
And people like @durbin.senate.gov and @schumer.senate.gov allow this to happen.
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Dear-Leader-itis has hit pandemic status in Trumpland.
December 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Dear-Leader-itis has hit pandemic status in Trumpland.
How did this guy get a degree in Economics.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
How did this guy get a degree in Economics.
It's not white enough, unreal racism
Republicans and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued in federal court this week that California’s new redistricting plan constitutes an illegal racial gerrymander — and not a legal partisan one, like Democrats claim. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In California Redistricting Challenge, GOP Alleges Illegal Racial Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It's not white enough, unreal racism
I'd say it would be negligent not to re-sign him next year. He'll likely get 4-5 years at around $18M-$20M, which the Cubs have. There isn't a player like him on the Cubs and he's not easily replaced. Shaw doesn't replace his skill bat to ball skills, nobody on the roster comes close.
And so long as that's true, it's at least worth exploring what he could fetch in trade this year (where the middle infield FA class is also laughably weak) and weighing that against whatever chance the Cubs believe they have of successfully extending him. It'd be negligent not to.
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I'd say it would be negligent not to re-sign him next year. He'll likely get 4-5 years at around $18M-$20M, which the Cubs have. There isn't a player like him on the Cubs and he's not easily replaced. Shaw doesn't replace his skill bat to ball skills, nobody on the roster comes close.
Sure, let's trust the tech bros to regulate themselves... the ones who continue to become rich off the public and have allowed Facebook and other platforms to do so much damage to our kids and the public in general.
TECH: Andreessen Horowitz is laying out a framework on Wednesday that it wants Congress to take up for artificial intelligence, including ideas on protecting kids and preserving a role for states despite the federal approach.
@benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details:
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
@benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details:
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Here are a16z’s ideas for Congress on AI
Andreessen Horowitz is laying out a framework on Wednesday that it wants Congress to take up for artificial intelligence.
punchbowl.news
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Sure, let's trust the tech bros to regulate themselves... the ones who continue to become rich off the public and have allowed Facebook and other platforms to do so much damage to our kids and the public in general.
This is nuts and our Congress controlled by toothless weasels won't do a damn thing. Impeachment is the only answer at this point
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This is nuts and our Congress controlled by toothless weasels won't do a damn thing. Impeachment is the only answer at this point
He'll remove all tariffs and watch the economy recover from the previous damage, and take credit
Bessent on an economic boost: "I think it's gonna start lifting off in the first quarter and second quarter"
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
He'll remove all tariffs and watch the economy recover from the previous damage, and take credit
Car and home insurance rates have exploded over the past few years as well, many in certain states can't even get home insurance.
Scalise on GOP healthcare plan: "Car insurance or your homeowners insurance - you turn on the TV, there are commercials w/ lizards & all kinds of other animals that are selling you options to get lower insurance. You don't really have that in health insurance. So we want to open up the marketplace"
December 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Car and home insurance rates have exploded over the past few years as well, many in certain states can't even get home insurance.
We need to separate the grid from the data centers or make them pay a higher rate than consumers.
YOUR ELECTRIC BILL IS GOING EVEN HIGHER:
"The bill is expected to reach $17 billion...That would mark the third consecutive year of record-breaking costs, as the swift build-out of data centers is adding billions of dollars to household utility bills."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"The bill is expected to reach $17 billion...That would mark the third consecutive year of record-breaking costs, as the swift build-out of data centers is adding billions of dollars to household utility bills."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Biggest US Power Auction Set to Deepen Affordability Concerns
The outcome of what was, until recently, an obscure US power market auction will be the subject of intense interest this week for electric generators, regulators and consumers alike.
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We need to separate the grid from the data centers or make them pay a higher rate than consumers.
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"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
So there is no warrant and no identification for the ICE agents. How is any law being broken?
On redirect, the prosecutor prompts the witness to say that ICE agents didn't wear identification that day because courthouse arrests are meant to be "low key."
The witness agrees.
End of the first witness's testimony.
10 minute recess
The witness agrees.
End of the first witness's testimony.
10 minute recess
December 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
So there is no warrant and no identification for the ICE agents. How is any law being broken?
People said far less about Charlie Kirk, some just pointing out his views were being inaccurately portrayed, and lost jobs after far right groups attacked the people and went to their employers.
Since Very Famous & supposedly Very Serious People at the center of the National Conversation™️ have told you repeatedly that The Democrats main problem is that they Talk Funny & that this is alienating Real Folkz, here is the Republican Narcissist In Chief talking about Rob Reiner z”l 🤷♂️🤦♂️
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
People said far less about Charlie Kirk, some just pointing out his views were being inaccurately portrayed, and lost jobs after far right groups attacked the people and went to their employers.
A classic. TMBG were a bit quirky, but one of my favorite bands.
December 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A classic. TMBG were a bit quirky, but one of my favorite bands.
WTF
Hollywood was in complete shock at the devastating news that filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer had been found dead in their Brentwood home on Sunday.
Hollywood Reacts In Shock Over Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Deaths: “Legend Isn’t a Big Enough Word”
Hollywood was in complete shock at the devastating news that filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer had been found dead in their Brentwood home on Sunday.
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
WTF
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And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
How Democrats’ Attack On Section 230 Plays Right Into Trump’s Censorial Plans
Like clockwork, lawmakers are once again rallying around the idea of eliminating Section 230. That Republicans are leading this charge is hardly surprising—repealing Section 230 is explicitly laid …
www.techdirt.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
Two devastating injuries in the NFL today. Hope they come back strong next year.
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Two devastating injuries in the NFL today. Hope they come back strong next year.
Spineless
“.. When people realize that it’s popular now to be against the president on a couple of issues .., you’ll see a different attitude.” 🤡
@nytimes.com
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@nytimes.com
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December 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Spineless
This is 100% accurate. Rich white men are accused, it was the times... Minorities get accused, they end up in jail and used to end up dead.
December 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is 100% accurate. Rich white men are accused, it was the times... Minorities get accused, they end up in jail and used to end up dead.